Photographer and filmmaker Nick Ballon documented the makers and materials used in Piercy&Company's redesign of an office in London's Mayfair district.

Filmed over a year, the short film Making of 25 Savile Row follows five the materials selected by the British architects from their workshops to the site.

Timber, stone, leather, bronze and steel all feature in the film, inter-cut with portraits of the makers who work with them. The architect and the clients also star in cameo roles at the end of the film, which features a walk-through of the finished project.

"I wanted to approach it from a photographic perspective, so using a lot of fixed frames and allowing the action to happen in a controlled composition," explained Ballon.
"In photography I rely on these observational moments to happen naturally by putting myself in the right place. In film there has to be a sense of the contrived moment because by nature, film is a slower process," he added.

"I still observed these moments as I would as a photographer, but then we often had to repeat and perform them for the camera in a few takes."

The film takes viewers to Capoferri Serramenti's workshop in Lombardy, Italy, where they crafted the bronze doors, building signage and ironmongery.

In Kilburn, north west London, Bill Amberg Studio stitched the leather work for the bespoke seating, whilst in the north London workshops of Unique Surfaces Italian travertine sourced in Tuscany was milled an...